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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ J Appl Econ. 2010 Jan;2(1):86–115. doi: 10.1257/app.2.1.86

Table 3.

Effect of Cash Transfer on Children's Educational Achievement

Years of Education, Age 21
Probability of HS Grad, Age 19
Prob of HS Grad/GED, Age 19
Independent Variables Coeff. Marg. Eff. Marg. Eff.
Interaction 1: Age Cohort 1 × Number of American Indian Parents 0.379 0.156** 0.086
(0.447) (0.073) (0.054)
Interaction 2: Age Cohort 2 × Number of American Indian Parents 0.117 0.042 0.033
(0.304) (0.066) (0.044)
Age Cohort 1 (9 yo) −0.269 −0.025 −0.019
(0.294) (0.060) (0.0457)
Age Cohort 2 (11 yo) 0.072 −0.010 −0.016
(0.275) (0.055) (0.041)
Number of American Indian Parents in Household −0.503 −0.156 −0.131***
(0.350) (0.068) (0.047)
American Indian 0.003 0.081 0.075
(0.472) (0.063) (0.038)
Sex −0.639*** −0.123*** −0.081***
(0.227) (0.043) (0.033)
Mother Has a High School Degree/GED 0.557 0.103* 0.079**
(0.399) (0.051) (0.034)
Father Has a High School Degree/GED −0.164 0.001 0.026
(0.396) (0.067) (0.044)
Mother Has More than a High School Degree 0.924** 0.117** 0.129***
(0.367) (0.058) (0.045)
Father Has More than a High School Degree 0.757** 0.053 0.051
(0.306) (0.056) (0.040)
Household Previously in Poverty Indicator Variable −0.120 −0.045 −0.026
(0.174) (0.028) (0.019)
Average Household Income in First Three Survey Waves 0.214** 0.031*** 0.022***
(0.048) (0.010) (0.007)
Constant 10.554

(0.532)


Observations 1045 1060 1060
Wald Chi-Squared (15) 24.53 88.01 96.22
Pseudo R2 0.2577 0.157 0.172

Note:

***

indicates coefficient statistically significant at the 1% level,

**

at the 5% level

*

at the 10% level.

Note: Years of Education regressions are ordinary least squares, the next two regressions are probit regressions with marginal coefficients calculated.

Note: Robust standard errors are given in parenthesis below the estimated coefficients.